The Marionettes in concert, after competing in the Cork International Choral & Dance Festival (1984)

Programme & song list below. NB: This is another concert rescued from an old Betamax tape, so that there is some audio muffling/distortion and some laptop/desktop speaker systems may have difficulty with the higher registers.

ABOUT THE CONCERT
This concert (reduced to an hour for television) — part of the choir's 20th anniversary season — followed the choir's return from a highly successful competitive tour to the Cork International Choral & Dance Festival in Ireland. There, the group made frequent trips to winners' row, winning the Ruth Railton Prize for the most outstanding contribution by a visiting group at the Festival; 2nd place in the Madrigal Choirs category (singing "Il est bel et bon"); and 2nd in the Mixed Choirs category. Composer and arranger Gwyn Arch — whose arrangement of "She moved thro' the fair" was a test piece — singled out the Marionettes as the best performance of his piece at the whole festival.

PROGRAMME
00:00 — Opening
Zadok the priest (Handel)
Alleluia (Thompson)
11:20 — Highlights from Cork
My love dwelt in a northern land (Elgar)
Il est bel et bon (Passereau)
16:35 — Traditional favourites
Scarborough fair (arr. M. Vance)
Ole man river (Hammerstein, arr. Ringwald. Solo: Roland Belfonte)
22:48 — Spirituals
Sinner please don’t let this harvest pass (arr. West)
Dis train (arr. Hairston)
30:04 — Orpheus with his lute (Sullivan. Solo: Ann Gordon)
33:19 — Where did it start
Memory (Lloyd Webber, solo: Deborah Karam Nahous)
The winds of the 60s ("Both sides now"; "Downtown"; "Moon River"; "I want to hold your hand"; "Up up & away"; "Traces"; "Blowin in the wind")
47:46 — Caribbean folk
Boysie (Tobago folk song, arr. Waithe)
Mi cahfi (Jamaican folk song, arr. Waithe)
Mrs. Flanagan (Jamaican folk song, arr. Waithe. Solo: Leah Brown)
I music (Len "Boogsie" Sharp, arr. Waithe)

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Musical Director & Conductor: Gretta Taylor
Assistant Musical Director: Susan Dore
Secretary: Joanne Mendes
Costume & Set Design: Wayne Berkeley
Movement: Lesley-Ann Wells
Lighting: George Williams
Accompanist: Marjorie Williams-Smith
House Manager: Rosalind Wilson
Stage Manager: George Arneaud
Business Manager: Lennox Straker
Committee: Hal Barrow, Noel Duncan, Joy Ferguson, Franklin Tuitt, Rosalind Wilson
Box Office: Esla Morris
Musicians: Marjorie Williams-Smith, Desmond Waithe, Michael Tobas, Theron Shaw, Wendy Jeremie, John Vanderpool, Emmanuel Ector, Alisford Phillips, Maureen Clement, Ivol O'Brien